Design Hierarchy

Design Hierarchy is a structural abstraction in hardware description languages that organizes a digital system into a tree-like arrangement of modular components, where each level encapsulates progressively finer-grained functional units to facilitate systematic design, reuse, and verification.

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50.6K

Citations

1.9K

Authors

601

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2017–2026

Parents

Hardware Description Languages

Children

Arrayed InstancesBehavioral AbstractionConditional CompilationDesign PartitioningDesign ReuseElaboration SemanticsEntity InstantiationGenerate StatementsHardware GenericsHierarchy Flattening

Publications

859

A scaling method for priorities in hierarchical structures

Thomas L. Saaty · Journal of Mathematical Psychology · 1977 · 10.2K citations

Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering +13

The interaction of design hierarchies and market concepts in technological evolution

Kim B. Clark · Research Policy · 1985 · 985 citations

Engineering, Design, Technology Management +9

System-level design: orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design

Kurt Keutzer, A. Richard Newton, Jan M. Rabaey et al. · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2000 · 966 citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

Hierarchical Partitioning

Albert Chevan, Michael R. Sutherland · The American Statistician · 1991 · 743 citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering +17

The fine structure of the constructible hierarchy

Ronald Björn Jensen · Annals of Mathematical Logic · 1972 · 681 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +10

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Authors

1.9K

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Daniel D. Gajski
University of California, Irvine, United States
15 publications · 634 citations
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Frank Vahid
University of California, Riverside, United States
12 publications · 404 citations
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Farrokh Mistree
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
9 publications · 346 citations
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Panos Y. Papalambros
University of Michigan, United States
8 publications · 1.1K citations
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Alberto Sangiovanni‐Vincentelli
University of California, Berkeley, United States
8 publications · 1.5K citations
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601

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IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
38 publications · 3.2K citations
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Design Automation Conference
Conference · 29 publications · 1.2K citations
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Journal of Mechanical Design
12 publications · 1.2K citations
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IEEE Design & Test of Computers
12 publications · 676 citations
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Computer
9 publications · 1.1K citations
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